Too much sleep could be linked to heart disease, study finds
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Too much sleep could be linked to heart disease, study finds

This article was taken from: https://news.sky.com/story/too-much-sleep-could-be-linked-to-heart-disease-study-finds-11571707 By  Sky news Researchers say the healthiest amount of sleep adults should aim to have is between six and eight hours a day. Too much sleep could lead to heart problems, a study has found. Researchers discovered death and diseases of the heart or blood vessels in the brain are…

Baby born after womb transplant from dead donor
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Baby born after womb transplant from dead donor

This article was taken from: https://news.sky.com/story/baby-born-after-womb-transplant-from-dead-donor-11571594 By Sky News Although uterus transplants are a growing area of medicine, they remain experimental and are very difficult surgeries to complete. A mother has given birth to a healthy baby girl after surgeons implanted a womb in her body from a deceased donor. The case study – published in…

How do you tackle stress in the workplace?
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How do you tackle stress in the workplace?

This article was taken from: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-46443379 By Hugh Pym Is the workplace more stressful than it was? Do employees feel more under pressure than before? Are staff feeling burdened by work emails around the clock? Recent data and surveys suggest there is an increasing problem. Now one business owner wants other employers to follow his lead…

Two in three English people are overweight or obese, NHS says
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Two in three English people are overweight or obese, NHS says

This article was taken from: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/health/two-in-three-english-people-are-overweight-or-obese-nhs-says-in-bleak-study-a4008036.html By James  Morris Nearly two in three English people are overweight or obese, a new study by the NHS has found. The NHS’s Health Survey for England, released today, found 64 per cent of adults are overweight or obese according to Body Mass Index (BMI) scores. This compares to 53 per cent recorded in last year’s…

Proton beam failure leaves hundreds of child cancer patients at risk
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Proton beam failure leaves hundreds of child cancer patients at risk

This article was taken from: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/12/02/proton-beam-failure-leaves-hundreds-child-cancer-patients-risk/ By Justin Stoneman  & Henry Bodkin st the Telegraph news Hundreds of children with cancer are resorting to inferior treatment because of a failure to open two flagship specialist centres, experts have warned. NHS officials have admitted that no patient has yet received state-of-the-art proton beam therapy (PBT) at either its new London or Manchester…